The Lemon Fool

Before I hold forth on this statement made today at the Institute for Government - should this thread be under Laughing Lemons?

T7

terminal7 wrote:Before I hold forth on this statement made today at the Institute for Government - should this thread be under Laughing Lemons?

Sounds more like a severe case of Bitter Lemons

Not sure what you expected her to say.

Laughton wrote:Not sure what you expected her to say.

It was consensual.

T7

Yes, and you ARE good looking & clever too, Liz!

terminal7 wrote:It was consensual.

And what's more, the girl was on top! Couldn't hold the position for very long, though.

BJ

terminal7 wrote:

Laughton wrote:Not sure what you expected her to say.

It was consensual.

T7

I never consented.

How could I? I was never even asked!

bungeejumper wrote:

terminal7 wrote:It was consensual.

And what's more, the girl was on top! Couldn't hold the position for very long, though.

BJ

It's a sad fact of getting older. The mind might be willing but the body is weak!

I cant believe the front/ sheer brass neck of the woman.
How she can think anyone will take her seriously after her disastrous term in office is beyond me.
Totally overpromoted for any cabinet job, let alone the top one and so it proved- and yet?
Well, it was not her fault the economy crashed and burned with her at the wheel you know- oh no, it wasn't down to her policies - it was the fault of the BBC, Bank of England, Jan Stewer, Peter Davey, Peter Gurney, Harry Hawk...
Starmer and the labour party will be loving her attempt to rehabilitate herself by professing yet more expertise on how she would save the economy.
Sunak will be wincing.
Sheesh- the best thing she could have done in the interests of her party is to disappear until after the next election ie 'deliver' herself to a vortex somewhere.

Laughton wrote:Not sure what you expected her to say.

Nothing would be a good start

She's developing a career as a stand up comic. Well, some people laugh - or cry.

Arb.

I seem to remember a saying, something like "when you're in a hole it's wise to stop digging". Either that or she should be receiving treatment for memory loss.

R6

didds wrote:

Laughton wrote:Not sure what you expected her to say.

Nothing would be a good start

She has a book to sell. I think it would be an interesting read, but I'll be getting it from my local library, or maybe when it turns up in The Works for 99p.

Her stellar career, right up to the moment of her downfall, is somewhat at odds with anecdotes from people who worked with her, and it would be interesting to read her side of the story.

DM

Mad Nad has a book on the way as well. The Assasination of Boris Johnson, or some such toss. All labour need to do is put up posters of Truss, Johnson, Dorries, Rees Mogg etc with the strapline ..... Vote For Us, or Else.

Redmires wrote:Mad Nad has a book on the way as well. The Assasination of Boris Johnson, or some such toss. All labour need to do is put up posters of Truss, Johnson, Dorries, Rees Mogg etc with the strapline ..... Vote For Us, or Else.

May did that in 2017. The first piece of election crap that landed on my doormat had a mugshot of Corbyn gazing up from my doormat, but turned out to be from the Tories.

It was just one of the ingredients that led to my voting Labour for the first - and (hitherto) only - time in my life. In a constituency where the Labour challenger beat the sitting Conservative MP that year.

UncleEbenezer wrote:

Redmires wrote:Mad Nad has a book on the way as well. The Assasination of Boris Johnson, or some such toss. All labour need to do is put up posters of Truss, Johnson, Dorries, Rees Mogg etc with the strapline ..... Vote For Us, or Else.

May did that in 2017. The first piece of election crap that landed on my doormat had a mugshot of Corbyn gazing up from my doormat, but turned out to be from the Tories.

It was just one of the ingredients that led to my voting Labour for the first - and (hitherto) only - time in my life. In a constituency where the Labour challenger beat the sitting Conservative MP that year.

Did you actually want Corbyn to be PM?

Or was your decision more local and/or tactical?

Listen up! It’s Liz Truss and the PopCons, the Tory tribute act sounding a death knell for irony
Marina Hyde

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/06/liz-truss-popcons-tory-lettuce

If today’s launch by the leader who was outlasted by a lettuce is the answer, what on earth was the question?

"In terms of other personnel, PopCon launch speakers included Rees-Mogg (hates the nanny state but still has a nanny) and the woman standing in Chris Grayling’s old seat (huge clown shoes to fill)."

"I can’t help feeling that other ironies are very much available – and that only at this particular auto-satirical stage of public life could someone outlasted by a lettuce be casting the shortest prime ministership ever as her salad days."

Liz Truss and the Popcorns. Pop pop poppity pop!

She clearly doesn't realised she is stuffed as well as trussed

Still, you need an incredibly thick skin to be a politician anyway. Trouble is, she didn't have the gravytas

And John Crace's take on the same topic:

Bring out the PopCons, Liz Truss is the entertainment that keeps on giving

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/06/bring-the-popcons-out-liz-truss-is-the-entertainment-that-keeps-giving

Another opportunity to savour the latest incarnation of one of UK’s shortest-reigning prime ministers

"Finally the person we had all come to see. The Trusster. “I don’t get invited to dinner parties much any more,” she said coyly. Well, you can come to our house in Tooting any time. We’ll have such a laugh.

Her actual speech was more a semi-coherent ramble. More shadowy lefties everywhere you looked. The only people you could trust were in this room. Perhaps not even all of them, though."